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Must-Watch Series: Vets Save Lives in Dramatic New Vets Without Borders Webseries

Visiting vets in rural Guatemala save dogs despite difficult circumstances

By: Sara Lima

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Their clinics are dusty spaces with limited electricity and no running water. Their operating tables are wooden desks covered in garbage bags. Most of their clients have never seen a vet before.

Despite the odds, Veterinarians Without Borders (VWB) rely on boundless ingenuity to save lives and reduce animal suffering in the new webseries Vets Without Borders. The show follows a team of VWB volunteer vets and vet techs to Todos Santos, Guatemala, a small mountain village where rabid dogs have attacked people, transmitting the deadly disease. The vets are there to spay/neuter and vaccinate the dog population, but in a community with no other vet care there are many more crises to overcome. From aiding a Rottweiler found dying in the street to a cardiac arrest during a spay surgery, the vetsโ€™ skills are pushed to the max in an environment where they have only the bare essentials. Vets Without Borders’ premier is part of VWBโ€™s annual fundraising campaign to Make Rabies History. Watch three simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking episodes:



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